We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar WildeTags: inspirational optimism perception pessimism
I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.
Eugene O'NeillTags: optimism
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
Thomas L. FriedmanTags: optimism pessimism change
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne FrankTags: life optimism world activism philosophy
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: inspirational optimism
TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
Nelson MandelaThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar WildeTags: optimism
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.
Charlotte BrontëTags: life optimism strength death courage joy endurance suicide chapter-21 steadfastness
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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